I was going to write in RP too, but if he is not registered as a write-in my vote may be thrown away. I cant risk that, I will vote constitutional
like last time. It is nice to know that RP supports their party.

In any case it seems that there is quite a lot of RP on the top of ats. hopefully that means that people are waking up, or maybe its just ats....

I might not be around much over the next few days to check back on this but I'm going to reach out to a few media channels with the basic message and
see if I can throw some sparks at the cotton so to speak. There's no harm in discussing this out loud and with the media if you aren't afraid to,
but if you are, keep it to yourself as it's only you that you will have to answer to election day at the terminal/booth!

Keep the ideas going guys & gals and remember to spread this message like butter to the driest part of the bread. Let's not contain this only to
ourselves and the like minded as that's what the opposition IS COUNTING ON! :=)

Next objective is to merge the efforts. Far too many small clusters out there. We need to concentrate this effort and focus the light to a burning
laser point.

I keep thinking we should just break off our own side of america on the west coast. That'll be the cool side. All the jerks can stay in washington
and make war on everything like fanatics untill some terrorist/government agent sets off a suitcase nuke in a city in the US. I say Ron Paul is our
president in cool america, and Arnold Schwarzenneggar gets to be the vice president and if anybody messes with us we send Arnold to terminate them.

After he lost the nomination I was actually going to vote for the lesser of two evil for the 3rd time in a row for fear of McCain gaining the
presidency.

Since then, I've realized that it doesn't really matter if Obama or McCain get the presidency because they are equally ignorant in supporting the
bail-out.

I'm writing in Ron Paul.

Screw the Democrats and screw the Republican. We've got to vote these idiots out of office THIS YEAR! Elect someone new to the congress and senate.
Find out who's the incumbent and vote against him. When 90% of Americans are against a Bail-Out and the idiots in Congress STILL vote for it ...
it's time for a whole regime change!

Sorry, I read through about half of this topic, and I still don't have a clear idea of why it should be kept quiet. Is it so the the media can't
conspire to suppress him more than they already are? Is the conspiracy theory that they come up with poll numbers ahead of time, and the surprise
will prove they are liars?

Anyway, at breakfast this morning, my brother, the politician of the family and a long-time McCain supporter, exclaimed how fed-up he is with McCain.
When I said I will take that as permission to write in Ron Paul, he gave me a condescending laugh because my vote won't count in Illinois either way.
Edit: The point of telling this anecdote was that it pushed me over the "Ron Paul edge". I now want to write him in more than to vote for John
McCain.

Those of us who are new to the political process (I have not yet voted in a Presidential election) or otherwise uninformed need definite answers from
those trying to organize this. How do we find out what voting method (machine or paper) our area will use? How do we write Paul's name in for each
method? What, exactly, should we write to assure that our vote counts for the right man? How can be we sure our write-in vote will count at all? On
whom could we agree as a running mate?

Some posts here have really discouraged me from even trying, particularly ones about the ballots just being thrown away. The independents who will
actually be on the ballot sound like a safer choice, and I am not feeling any reassurance that it makes sense to vote for Ron Paul. It's hard to
organize when the man no longer endorses himself for election to the presidency.

The write-in idea is good, even if just for a symbolic victory, but I need someone to show me that it is possible rather than a poorly-thought-out
fantasy.

I've been telling my family and friends that I'm writing in Ron Paul. All I get is blank stares of complete confusion, and then their frustrated
attempts to set me 'straight' and vote McCain. They simply regurgitate talking points they hear on the news that have no semblance of being real
issues. I've tried to tell them about the false choices of our political system and that they're voting for an image that lacks any substance. But
I do get praise for sticking to my beliefs and convictions, so not all hope is lost. I'm ready to light the fuse on the Write-in bomb.

I had taken the same poll for fun, and at the time Ron Paul was at 77%.It's because the man is speaking truth. He has never waited out a decision to
make a personal choice appear "right," but has always followed his gut and has been talking about this eminent collapse for years. Where as the
other people on that list are open crooks, Ron Paul is the only man with the balls to step up to the plate and call it as he sees it. 79% in any poll
reveals that his assertions were correct, and the American people look at his assessment as being "spot on" while all these pussies are dancing
around the root cause and the overall severity of the situation.

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